weekend
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"If you're a millennial, or you're the older part of Gen Z, you're kind of over going out to the pub every weekend," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The iconic example of ‘organic architecture,’ constructed as a lodge for weekend getaways, embedded a modern building in the landscape in a radical vision of the way each could enhance the other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
There’s still a high degree of uncertainty around the chance of rainfall, but the system is likely to bring higher surf and stronger rip currents over the holiday weekend, Lewis said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
He said that when he celebrated his son’s 15th birthday the previous weekend, there were “plenty of helium balloons,” but also stick balloons.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
It was a little orange coupe, usually dusty, but clean today because of the rain over the weekend.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Still, he said he tried to be as involved as possible, coaching the children’s sports teams and rarely working weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Dolly Parton, the country music icon who died at age 80 this week, used to spend some of her weekends in Solvang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Emma maintained a day job at a Shanghai wine importer, and worked at the vineyard on the weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
How do you want to spend your leisure time and weekends?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
For the next two weeks, Roberto and I worked picking carrots and thinning lettuce after school and on weekends when it did not rain.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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There he weekended last week, driving up from Philadelphia through Valley Forge Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The good weather gives us more time to write, because we aren’t raking leaves, shoveling snow, having drinks with our editors, or weekending in the Hamptons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
He is said to have been building a retirement compound in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second city, while weekending in the mountains where he helped changed the course of history.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2021
At the Filling Station, an open-air burger joint on 9W popular with weekending families and cyclists, I learned maintenance tips from riders with legs so muscled they looked like bundles of firewood.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
Long a destination for weekending Brits in search of cheap booze, Calais had by now become something of a ghost town, evacuated of the usual tourists, who were fearful of the encampment on its doorstep.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017
If I were weekending at Bodfish's, I should have arrived there just half an hour ago.
From A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse